A metaphor stating that intermediate steps to understanding are seen as nonsense.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein utters that his book is filled with nonsense, fooling the masses
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My propositions serve as elucidatons in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has used them-as steps-to climb beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.) He must transcent these propositions, and then he will see the world aright.